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Corey Yuen Biography
Birth Name:
Ying Gang-Ming
Birth Place:
Hong Kong, China
Profession
Actor, director, producer, stunts, choreographer, action director
Fast Facts
- Studied at the Peking Opera School under the watch of Master Yu Jim-yuen along with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and was a member of The Seven Little Fortunes
- Got in a real-life fistfight over a comic book with Jackie Chan when they were both 10 years old
- Adopted the name Yuen in honor of Jim-Yuen Yu, his teacher
- Began his film career as a stuntman
- Known for mixing hand-to-hand combat and gun fighting, which is not common in Hong Kong action films